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WASHING MACHINE. No. 597,344. Patnted Jan. 11, 1898.

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No. 597,344. Patented Jan. 11,1898.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,344, dated January11, 1898.

Application filed July 10, 1897. Serial No. 64,O68. (No model.)

To all wit-0712, 212 may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN G. WEILAGE, of Crete, in the county of Salineand State of Nebraska, have invented anew and Improved Washing-Machine,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a washing-machine by means ofwhich clothes may be thoroughly cleaned without rubbing them upon aboardor together, thereby preventing the buttons from being broken off andfine fabrics from becoming damaged.

Another object of the invention is to so construct a washing-machinethat air may be compressed and brought into action to force the washingfluid through the clothes in a manner to thoroughly cleanse them, thecompression of the air being effected in an exceedingly simple andexpeditious manner.

Another object of the invention is to provide means for securing acompressing-table above arocking grate at a distance from thegratenecessitated by the number of pieces placed in the machine, whichpieces are located between the compressing-table and the rocking grate.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the complete machine. Fig. 2 is a plan viewof the machine, the compressing-table having been removed. Fig. 3 is avertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a bottom plan viewof the compressing-table. Fig. 5 is a vertical section on the line 5 5of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a detail inside view of a portion of the tank, tub,or body of the machine, partly in section, on the line 6 6 in Fig. 5,illustrating the locking device as applied to hold the compressingtablein position; and Fig. 7 is a view similarto Fig. 6, the locking device,however, being shown in a position which will enable thecompressing-table to be removed from the body of the washing-machine.

A represents a tub or tank, the tub or tank being represented ascircular in the drawings; but said tub or tank may be given any othercontour, if desired. At opposite sides on the inner face of the tub ortank bifurcated standards 13 are secured by screws, rivets, or theirequivalents, each of the standards comprising a member 10 and a member11, connected by a base member 12, and in the upper central portion ofthe lower connecting member of each bracket a recess 13 is produced.

In the inner edge portion of the member 11 of each standard B a seriesof longitudinal recesses leis produced; but the standards are soattached to the tub, tank, or body of the washing-machine that the plainmember 10' of one standard will face the recessed member 11 of theopposing standard, as shown in Fig. l.

A rocking grate O is located at the bottom of the tub, tank, or body ofthe machine, consisting of transverse bars 15, amain or central tie-bar16, whose upper face is flush with the upper surfaces of the transverseor cross bars 15, and auxiliary tie-bars 17, which are simply let intothe bottom portions of the transverse or cross bars 15. Trunnions 18 areformed at opposite ends of the grate, being at the end portions of thecentral tie-beam 16, and these trunnions are madeto enter the recesses13 in the bottom portions of the bifurcated standards B. In this mannerthe grate may have a rocking movement on its supports. Acompressing-table D is located above the rocking grate. Thiscompressing-table consists of a top 19, which is air-tight, a flange 20,extending downward from the margin of the top, a main central tie-beam21, extending from flange to flange, and cross beams or bars 22,extending from the sides of the tiebeam to the flange 20, as shown inFig. 4. Preferably the compressing-table is flattened opposite the endsof the tie-beam 21.

A trunnion 23 is formed at the center of each flattened surface of thecompressingtable, and upon each trunnion an arm 24. is pivoted,terminating in a latch-head 25, the arms being adapted to enter thespaces between the members of the bifurcated standards and thelatch-heads being arranged to enter the recesses 14 in one of themembers of the said standards, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7. A locking linkor bar 26 is pivotally attached to each latch-head 25, terminating atits free end in a head 27, which is in the nature of a bar and isadapted to engage with the inner edge of the straight members 10 of thebifurcated standards when the latch-heads have entered the recesses 14in the opposing member of the standard. A handle '28 is secured to thetop central portion of the compressingtable, being provided withsuitable braces 29.

In operation the Washing compound is placed in the tub, tank, or body A,and the clothes are placed upon the grate O. The compressing-table isthen introduced into the tub, tank, or body, brought down to anengagement with the clothes, and secured by carrying the locking-links2G to an engagement with the straight members of the standards. Thecompressing-table may now be rocked upon its pivot by means of thehandle 28, and as each end of the compressing-table is carried or dippeddownward it will compress the air, thereby causing the washing fluid topass through the fabric of the articles being cleansed, the compressedair being more or less confined by the tie-beams in the grate C and thecompressing-table. Thus it Will be observed that alternately the washingcompound will be forced through the clothes through the medium of thecompressed air at opposite sides of the tub, and the clothes will bethoroughly cleansed without any rubbing and Without frictional contactwith any substances which will be calculated to injure them.

The attachment may be readily applied to any tub or tank and is-simple,durable, and economic and is capable of being operated in a convenientand expeditious manner and Without undue exertion on the part of theoperator.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In a Washing-machine, the combination, withstandards, and a grate mounted to rock in the said standards, of apivotally-mounted tion, with bifurcated standards, andra grate mountedto rock in the bottom portion of said standards, of a compressing-tablemounted above the grate and adjustable to and from the same, andswinging'locking devices connected with the compressing-table, adaptedto engage with the said standards and hold the compressing-table in itsadjusted position, the table being pivotally attached to the lookingdevices.

3. The combination, with bifurcated standards, a member of each standardbeing provided with recesses'in its inner edge, and a grate mounted torock in the lower portions of the said standards, of a compressing-tablehaving trunnions, arms pivotally receiving the said trunnions, each armbeing provided with a latch-head to enter a recess in said standards,and locking-links pivotally connected with the said arms, also arrangedfor engagement with said standards, for the purpose specified.

4:. In a Washing-machine, the combination, with standards, and a gratepivotally mounted in the lower portions of the said standards, the saidgrate comprising cross-bars and a central tie beam or bar, Which extendssubstantially to the upper surface of the crossbars, of acompressing-table having an airtight top, a flanged side, a tie-beam andcrossbars extending from the tie-beam, the tiebeam and cross-bars beingon the under face of the compressing-table, and locking devicespivotally supporting the compressing-table, and arranged for lockingengagement with said standards, for the purpose set forth.

HERMAN G. WEILAGE.

Witnesses:

GEo. H. HASTINGS, JOHN KERST.

